| Carp Secrets |
 | Tips and advice for carp fishermen and fishing aficionados. May also be interesting for any aficionado to outdoor activities, as a source for information about food gathering techniques for emergencies. Fishing is a valid survival technique, and generally more efficient than hunting, especially if the survivor does not have much experience at it, lacks gear or weapons. Fishing, on the other hand, is not an absolutely easy thing to do, but produces better results and is easier to help oneself using nets, hooks, dams and even explosives. Besides, it consumes less energy, and in a survival situation where food is scarce, this could be significant. Hunting seems more adventurous, but it takes more skill to ambush an animal that has highly developed senses; plus, in a small island you have to consider yet another thing: resource management. You will have to manage your food and other resources thinking that you may be there for the long haul if rescue services don't find you, and there are always less land animals than fish. Thus, if you start hunting them you will run out of food quite soon, so better develop your abilities as a fisher. If you run out of resources and have another island on sight, you may attempt crossing the sea to it; in an atoll this may be relatively easy. But if you don't have an island in sight, don't just get into the water hoping to find one. An issue that you will have to consider when fishing is that of toxic substances and poisonous marine animals; unless you have quite a good knowledge of marine biology, leave all brightly coloured marine life aside and don't eat or even touch them, for many of those forms are in fact poisonous in one way or another. And while fishing known species, bear in mind that samples which are perfectly digestible and eatable in one place of the world may not be so in another one. This has to do with the diet of the animals: if they eat other animals which are poisonous, they will assimilate their toxines within their own bodies in variable degrees. Thus, it is very important to run a simple toxicity test by eating first a very minute amount of your prey and waiting for a few hours. If nothing happens, then eat a larger piece and repeat the process; if nothing happens either, then you can be pretty sure that you will not get poisoned. Don't forget these tips for marine survival, for you may survive only if you pay attention to details. |
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